Buffalo Dance
Tonita Vigil Peña (Quah Ah), San Ildefonso Pueblo / American, 1893 - 1949
San Ildefonso Pueblo (P'o-Woh-Ge-Owinge)
Southwest
about 1925-1926
Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on green wove paper, laid down on cardboard
Sheet: 21 15/16 × 30 1/16 in. (55.7 × 76.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
W.935.1.85
Geography
Place Made: San Ildefonso Pueblo, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Native American
Watercolor
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, in black opaque watercolor: Tonita Pena. / Quah.Ah.; Label, on reverse, upper left: The EXPOSITION of / INDIAN TRIBAL ARTS / Incorporated / TITLE Ceremonial Buffalo Dane / ARTIST Tonita Pena / LOANED BY Mrs. J. D. Rockefeller / NUMBER [missing because of tear] 01 / CAT. NO. 184; inscribed, on reverse, upper center, in black crayon: Oestriecher [?] / 1
Course History
SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
Arts Education Department, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1982 Classes.
Arts Education Department, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November-December 1983.
Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Taylor Hall, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, February 1941.
Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, sponsored by the College Art Association, New York, no. 184, toured United States and Europe, 1931-1933.
Gifts of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Carpenter Hall Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-July 11, 1976.
The Arts of Native America: Studio Painting, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 3, 1979.
Publication History
Hopkins Center Outreach Program, Pentagle Arts Coucil, Fall, 1981.
"Studio", Vol. 102, p. 393. 700.5. qS933, 1931.
Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1941, no. 7.
Catalogue: Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., 578 Madison Avenue, New York, Endorsed and Circulated through the College Art Association, 1931, no. 184.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 242.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 49, ill. fig. 8.1.
Provenance
Spanish-Indian Trading Co., Santa Fe, New Mexico; sold to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), by 1931; given to present collection, 1935.
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